Which Eye Do You Look Through the Viewfinder With? [POLL]
This poll will only be relevant to those of you who actually use the viewfinder of your digital camera (or those who have cameras WITH viewfinders as not all do these days) – but it comes from a conversation I had at a party a couple of weeks back with a group of friends (yes we’d had a drink or two).
It started when someone asked me what eye I look through the view finder with? I’d never considered the question before (and had to actually grab a camera and take a picture to work out which eye I use).
I use my right eye – but as we surveyed everyone at the party we discovered it was 60/35/5 (right/left/both).
So today I thought I’d see if that were the case with a larger sample of respondents.
Looking forward to seeing the results of this one.
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September 21st, 2009 at 9:53 am
What an interesting question. I’d expect it depends on which eye is your dominant eye. I remember reading somewhere that people with left eye dominance tend to get more migraines. Interesting :]
September 21st, 2009 at 10:12 am
I use my right eye but probably only because it’s my “better” eye. And by that I mean I have to use glasses and my left eye happens to be weaker and needs more correction.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:18 am
It is an interesting question, I’m 41 and recently got my first pair of glasses only to find out that I have an astigmatism in my right eye and that it was my right that was significantly more vision deficient than the left. The optometrist wasn’t able to conclude anything in relation to my reducing eyesight by the fact that I use my right eye through the view finder exclusively… but it did make me wonder!
September 21st, 2009 at 10:20 am
Wow – I’d never heard about the migraines.
I am left eye dominant, shoot left eye’d.
There is an advantage to shooting left-eyed – has posted a video about shooting left eye to then turn your body (using a full size camera – one w/ battery grip or Canon 1D/Nikon 3D sized body) to brace the camera so you can take photos hand-held at slower shutter speeds. I can attest that this works!
September 21st, 2009 at 10:20 am
I’m mostly left-eyed (which means I can practice Da Grip) but I often switch to my right eye if I need to bend at an awkward angle to save my neck. I don’t really notice a difference with using one eye or the other.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:23 am
I use my right eye. One benefit of right-eye viewers is that you can leave your left eye open and gather in the whole scene.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:25 am
I’m left handed and I use my right eye when shooting…..
September 21st, 2009 at 10:30 am
I use my right eye because it’s my better one. I used to shoot often with my left, but not anymore. Sometimes I do leave my left eye open and gather the scene up too as others commenting have stated.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:30 am
I look through with my right eye. I occasionally look through with my left though.
I also tend to keep both eyes open to help compose the shot, as well as look around in case something is about to happen outside of the frame (sports, wildlife etc)
September 21st, 2009 at 10:35 am
I use the right eye as I’m right eye dominant. Same eye I used when I used to competition shoot.
@steve hollasch – if you keep both eyes open, it also slows the strain on your eye so you don’t feel so tired after a long shoot. (old competition shooting trick – we didn’t want to “see” though, so we cut out a gallon milk jug to “block” the scene but since it was translucent – we could keep the eye from getting tired as it let enough light in.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:37 am
In the service, after my missing the target repeatedly, my armory instructor helped me to determine that I was ‘right-handed and left-eyed’. After years of forced adjustment so I could properly hit stuff now it’s just natural.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:41 am
I use my left eye, as it’s my dominant eye. I do however keep both eyes open most of the time. If I’m shooting something that is moving and my positioning allows it, I use my right eye to follow the “target” while looking through the view finder with my left, so I don’t have to move my head.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:43 am
I’m a right-eye guy.
How about a future poll asking who keeps their other eye open while looking through the viewfinder?
September 21st, 2009 at 10:51 am
@ Martin
I look through with my right eye, but often keep my left eye open to a) keep a wider perspective of the scene when I’m zoomed in, b) have a higher resolution look at whats going on and c) its easier to see action happening through that eye, so I often frame the shot with the right and wait for the best moment to take the picture with my left.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:55 am
interesting question. I’ve been asked about this often by my friends whose starting to use DSLR, and my answer is always try to use your best eye, and use which is more comfortable to shoot. For me, left is is my best eye, besides, i can use my right thumb to help me close my right eye while shooting :p
September 21st, 2009 at 10:56 am
I almost always use my left eye, but I’ll occasionally switch to right eye if I’m shooting sports so I can keep an eye on the action as it enters my frame. But that’s very uncomfortable to me.
September 21st, 2009 at 11:03 am
I use both, but primarily I’m a left-eye shooter. I like how I can use the camera to cover up my right eye eliminating the need for me to close it while shooting. In doing this, I don’t have to get it to adjust to light when I open it again. Also, I like how I can shoot at an extreme angle to my left (in effect not look at my subject).
September 21st, 2009 at 11:11 am
Left eye dominant but I keep my right eye open. I’m also right handed, if that matters.
September 21st, 2009 at 11:12 am
I have TERRIBLE vision in my right eye. I wear a contact lens in that eye, but not my left, so I have to use my left eye, or I wouldn’t be able to focus the camera!
September 21st, 2009 at 11:12 am
Right eye – its just natural – close myleft shoot with my right
September 21st, 2009 at 11:25 am
I use to use my right eye, but in school when I started printing my own 8×10s I noticed that when using manual focus my shots were often out of focus. I later figured out that I had an astigmatism in my right eye that was causing my to misconceive what was in focus. I forced myself to switch to using my left eye and the problem went away.
September 21st, 2009 at 11:46 am
My eye doctor says that I’m right eye dominant, but I shoot using my left eye. I guess that just means that I’m mixed up!
September 21st, 2009 at 11:54 am
I’m definitely right-side dominant – right-handed, right-footed, and right-eyed.
September 21st, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I use my left eye, but had to get my camera to check! I’m also going to have to check my optomitrist records to make sure I’m using the correct one – lol. I’d never heard that about migraines, but I do get them, so it makes sense. There are times I’ll keep both eyes open, but for the most part, it’s all left eye.
September 21st, 2009 at 12:19 pm
I’ve always used my left eye despite being right-handed and right-footed in everything else. I also feel like this makes my grip on the camera more stable when I’m not using a tripod because the camera is more centered with my head.
September 21st, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I’m right handed, and shoot with my left eye. It would be kind of intresting to see how many people are cross dominant.
September 21st, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I always wondered if I was just odd. I’m right handed so normally I should use my right eye. Unfortunately my right eye is significantly out of focus (left eye is close to perfect). I’ve almost always used my left but keep my right eye open.
I also had a bad bout of pink eye last year that did some damage to my right eye… now it’s an even bigger difference between left and right eye.
Interesting poll. Very interesting.
PS. I’ve never had migraines and rarely even get headaches. I’ve been eye-lopsided for most of my life.
September 21st, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I use my left eye, and keep my right eye open. It took a bit of getting comfortable with it, but it’s great! Typically the camera or my hand blocks most of everything my right eye would be seeing anyway.
I’m right side dominate, right handed, right footed, (shoot guns with right eye looking down the sight), but shoot cameras with my left eye.
It certainly is more comfortable to not have to clamp one eye down all day long.
September 21st, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Right handed, but left eye dominant…shoot left so i can keep my right eye open, to see what is going on outside of the view finder…with practice you can see through both at the same time.
September 21st, 2009 at 1:09 pm
I’m blind in my right eye so it’s gonna be the left on the viewfinder.
September 21st, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I use my left eye as well, but mostly because it has better vision than my right eye without needing glasses. I can use the diopter and get the right focus with my left.
September 21st, 2009 at 1:15 pm
I always use my left eye, but it’s not a preference as much as a requirement: I only get peripheral vision out of my right eye. Sure, if I close my left, I can see well enough to function, but I can’t focus the right well enough to read with it so…yeah.
Although I’ve gotten considerably better at shooting ‘from the hip’ so to speak with my lens at 28mm. Though it’ll take a while before I can shoot accurately with a 50 prime without the viewfinder.
September 21st, 2009 at 1:19 pm
I’m left-handed and apparently left-eyed. I’m also forever having to clean my screen because I like to snug in close and often end up leaving a little cheek residue behind. Do right eyed shooters have this problem? Hmmm. I’ll just keep working towards shooting from the hip :)
September 21st, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Right eye most of the time. Occasionally, left works better in certain direct light. I leave nose prints on my LCD either way. When tracking a bird or animal, I use the left to track and right to frame the picture. peace, mjh
September 21st, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Hi Darren,
you’re pretty much on track w/ the 60/35/5 :)
September 21st, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Right handed, left eyed here.
Never really thought about it, and actually surprised its not my right, but hey, it works for me!
September 21st, 2009 at 1:39 pm
I am ‘left eyed’ because my right eye has some serious astigmatism. I discovered when using a friend’s camera that it’s good that I have a Canon DSLR because my nose hit the buttons on the back of her Nikon.
I thought I was in way more of a minority to be left eyed and I wonder how camera designers take that into account when placing buttons etc.
September 21st, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I look through the viewfinder with my left eye because it’s got slightly better clarity than my right: 20/20 vs 20/40 :)
September 21st, 2009 at 1:49 pm
My dominant eye is the right which I would always shoot with, squinting my left eye. I had lasik done a few years back and found that when I squinted my for too long, my vision would be blurry for a couple minutes. So I’ve trained to shoot with both eyes open looking mostly with the left eye so that my right eye is blocked. I occasionally switch back to the right eye if I want to see the whole scene.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:31 pm
I cannot squint only my right eye. My last girlfriend thought that was hilarious.
Therefore I am right-eyed.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:35 pm
It would also be relevant to ask whether the user is left-handed or right-handed. That might have something to do with it too.
September 21st, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I use my left eye and always thought it’s the most common eye to use, until I’ve seen lots of people their right eye. I’ve tried it too, and I can shoot with my right eye too, but I use it very rarely.
September 21st, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Another right eye dominant person here but I look through the lens with my left eye.
Based on your survey I just tried using my right eye and it feels really strange/uncomfortable. What you’re used to I guess!
September 21st, 2009 at 5:37 pm
I use my left eye, for the sole reason that I can not close it (and hence use the right eye). I can close my right eye, both eyes, bot not my left eye alone. I have never heard of anyone other whom have the same “disability”.
September 21st, 2009 at 6:43 pm
All very interesting – use my right eye but might try my left – can some one come up with seeing version of the word ambidextrous! I am also just thinking of the of the antics of using the mono-pod after seeing the video on the Da Grip and I can see a window of opportunity to start a new modality here – PHOTOGRAPHERS YOGA! Any and all suggestions on this one let me know. Happy Monday to all clickers and snappers from Lisbon Portugal.
September 21st, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Now I have to try to shoot with my other eye :)
September 21st, 2009 at 7:13 pm
I am right handed and my right eye is the dominant one (left was a ‘lazy eye’ as a toddler) and I didn’t get glasses until I was an adult (immediately left -2,5, right -0,5) but last year the optician told me that my right eye could not be corrected completely (focus). My left eye, even though it is now -3,5 against -1,5 for my right eye, is the better eye. I never thought about it, but I do use my right eye to look through the viewfinder. Perhaps that is the reason a lot of shots are just out of focus. Using my left feels strange but perhaps I should try to get used to it if it helps to get sharp shots.
September 21st, 2009 at 7:17 pm
I use my left eye, but my wife mostly uses both eyes (which freaks me out).
She told me she learned this at art school, but I never experienced any benefit from her technique.
Maybe that’s the reason why she’s a painter and I’m a photographer…
September 21st, 2009 at 8:07 pm
I mostly use both, from a stability point of view it sometimes advisable to use the left eye: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDsx3-FWfwk
This trick only works when you look through the viewfinder with your left eye (unless you have the grip of the camera on the left side, which is rather unusual)
September 21st, 2009 at 8:39 pm
My left eye is dominant. The design of most SLRs and DSLRs means it’s all but impossible to use my better eye because my nose gets in the way, and the fingers on various buttons get in the way of my nose, and so on.
So, I voted “right”. Except when I use an anglefinder, when I can use either. Primarily right, though.
September 21st, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Both! That’s a fair effort through a tiny viewfinder. I find it hard to believe.
September 21st, 2009 at 9:10 pm
I am using my left eye,because I have glasses and my right eye is more worse than my left. :(
September 21st, 2009 at 9:23 pm
I find myself chuckling at the fact that I needed to haul out my camera to check this as well… I’m left eyed, left-handed for writing but right-handed for everything sports-related, etc. Oh, and I close my right eye when squinting into the viewfinder. I find it helps me focus more on what I see in the viewfinder than if I try with both open.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:25 pm
The only reason I use my left eye is because that is the eye i cant wink with. I like to have my right eye closed so i can see only whats in my viewfinder better. I know im going to get massive wrinkles this way.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:26 pm
oops forgot my pictures link
September 21st, 2009 at 10:39 pm
When using a viewfinder equipped camera (fuji s5800 until I get a dslr) I use the right eye because my face will be in front of the button on the back of the camera if I used my left eye.
My right eye is the weaker of the two so I have tried it both ways.
When using my P&S I use the screen on the back so I use both eyes for it.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:40 pm
I shoot left eye when I want to use “Da Grip”. When shooting wildlife or other moving subjects, I’ve taught myself to shoot “right eyed” because the viewfinder blocks my binocular vision if I try to shoot left eyed. Using your binocular vision helps you center the lens on the moving subjects. It also allows you to see what’s happening outside the frame so you can anticipate how that will affect what’s in the frame.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:48 pm
I use my left eye as I cannot shut my left eye I am right handed and footed.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
I have to shut the left eye and view with the right. The left eye is weaker and doesn’t focus well at all. Also can’t wear my glasses when working with the camera.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Statistically, depending on the survey you look at, between 57% and 68% of people are right-eye dominant., so your survey seems consistent with eye-dominance. Interestingly, one study suggested that a statiistically significant difference exists between men and women, with men being almost 70% right-eye dominant and women reporting 65%.
In answer to this survey, I use my right eye. I’ve occasionally tried my left, but that doesn’t work well for me.
September 21st, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Interesting poll — BUT, why don’t you ask which eye you use and whether or not it corresponds to your hand dominance? I’m right-handed, but use my left eye for focusing a camera and rifle. Never realized it until I was getting instruction in skeet shooting. Since my left eye was dominant, the instructor suggested holding the rifle on my left side.
September 21st, 2009 at 11:05 pm
I use my left, for some reason I cannot wink with my left eye but I can with my right.
September 21st, 2009 at 11:22 pm
A friend of mine taught me that you can choose wich is the ‘better eye’ to shoot by doing this, with both your eys open:
- Open your arm and point your thumb to any far subject;
- Try to aim at it the more accurately you could;
- Without moving your thumb, close your eyes, one at a time;
The eye wich got your thumb closest to the chosen subject is your ‘best’ eye
:D
September 21st, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Crazy thing, I had to go get my camera before I could answer this one. Turns out I use my left eye. Very interesting question.
September 21st, 2009 at 11:26 pm
look through the lens with right eye,,,but try to keep both eyes open [your photo left closed] it seems to help making better comp. or aware of other oportunities.. joe
September 21st, 2009 at 11:34 pm
I’m a lefty, so I use my right eye.
September 21st, 2009 at 11:34 pm
I use my left eye, possibly because that is my dominant eye. However, I’m going to try using my right eye as I think it would create a more user friendly position.
September 21st, 2009 at 11:37 pm
I had laser eye correction – mono vision. I use my right eye – “distance” for the viewfinder and my left eye ‘close” for the screen and computer. It’s very handy!!
September 21st, 2009 at 11:54 pm
i’m right eyed / right handed and right footed. but use my left eye to look through the viewfinder as i can only squint my right eye. no matter how much i try my left eye will not close. I also wear glasses and my right eye is stronger.
September 21st, 2009 at 11:57 pm
I have found that I use my left eye for landscape composing, but if I turn the camera for a portrait shot, I use my right eye. Anyone else do the same thing?
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:09 am
I use my left eye. Although I’m right-handed, my left eye needs almost no correction, whereas my right eye needs non-trivial amounts of correction. I also wear glasses, and I find myself taking them off so I can see through the viewfinder, so I’m considering getting contacts at my next vision check.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:24 am
I use both. And it’s not like I switch them on and off I look through the viewfinder with both eyes at the same time. When I first started using cameras I would look through with my right eye but after a 20+ mins of shooting my eyes would have trouble focusing at the same distance (probably because I wear glasses). I find if I look through the view finder with both eyes I can look at the subject too and strangely the focus becomes a bit clearer to me and does a bit of a 3d overlay thing that doesn’t wear out one eye over the other or leave me trying to get my left eye to catch up.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:30 am
I’ll add a new wrinkle. I use my right eye when holding my camera horizontal but seem to use my left eye more often for vertical shots. Something about pressing the camera against my nose.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:31 am
I use my right eye when shooting in portrait mode, and my left eye when in landscape mode.. i can see better with my left eye, right eye is not as healthy lol so it gets harder to focus properly with the right eye sometimes.. id say its 70% left eye, 30% right eye.. i voted both
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:34 am
Good question mixed answers quite a few answered with dominant eye. did they test their eyes to check which eye was dominant? I read somewhere that one of several ways to check which eye was dominant ,I took the simple way, focus with both eyes on an object approx: 10 feet away form a triangle with both hands using your thumbs and fore fingers object must be centered, now close your right and left eyes individually to check which eye focus on the object.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:40 am
I am 74 years old right handed and left eye dominant. I never had a headache let along a migrain headache. I found out I was left eye dominant when I sighted in my rifle scope. While it was accurate for me , my right handed friends couldn’t hit the side of a barn with the way I had the scope zeroed in. I will try using my right eye in the viewfinder to see what kind of results I get.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:44 am
How interesting! I never thought of it before. I don’t know if it matters, but even though I’m right-handed, I only look through the viewfinder with my left eye. I guess a better reason is that my left eye is better than my right eye. I’m really nearsighted and also have an astigmatism. And unlike other comments I see posted, I close my right eye when I look with my left. I tried keeping it open like they said, but it’s very strange to me. Another thing this question made me realize is that I don’t use my glasses when I shoot. I look above the glasses to take the shot. It’s amazing how you never think of something until it’s brought up!
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:53 am
I would use my left eye if I could, but my nose gets in the way!
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:59 am
I look through left eye because that way I don’t have to put effort the close the other eye. My right hand automatically falls over the right eye to close it.
Where if I choose right eye to look then I have to put some effort to close my left eye.
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:10 am
This is an interesting poll. For me it depends on whether I am holding the camera in portait or landscape mode. In portrait I use my right eye on the viewfinder and my left eye open. In landscape I use my left eye on the viewfinder with my right eye closed. Strange…
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:15 am
I use both. For subject where I am spending a lot of time looking through the viewfinder at motionless subjects such as portraits or landscapes I use my left eye so that my right eye can remain open and the back of the camera acts as a blockage (this avoids squinting one eye). For moving subjects such as volleyball or flying birds I use my right eye with my left eye open. This two eye approach allows me a greater field of view to watch what is going on and when the moment is right my camera is already on target. Takes some practice but anything worth learning takes some effort.
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:18 am
Left eye, left eye dominant, left hand, left foot. Why don’t they make a d300 for left handers? :)
and @lizzerd, I have to flip my lock switch on so that my nose won’t change my focus point. :D
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:18 am
I’m another right-handed, left-eyed shooter. Funny thing is when I’m shooting guns, I’m right eyed.
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:36 am
I use my left eye and keep both eyes open. I know I am left eye dominant but I am trying to train my other eye so I can keep both eyes open and not stare at the back of the camera
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:19 am
I’m right-handed and wear optical glasses. Mostly I shoot with my left eye. Then I have thumb prints on my right glass and switch the eye. I’m with Martin, how about a poll about keeping the other eye open or not?
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:20 am
I just voted for right-eyed and than read the comment by Florian to the Video post about the shoulder holding and left eyed view. I really like this and will try it!
But so far I am a right-eyed with often left eye open (mainly at nights where you sometimes barely see anything through the view-finder)
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:42 am
I used to use my right eye – especially back in the days when I used the Oly OM system. Using the right I could keep an eye (the left) on what was going on outside the frame.
Sadly the years have rolled on and now I have an astigmatism in my right eye, so I always use the left now to view and focus with.
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:50 am
I am right handed. And i started with right eye but soon realised that using the left eye has more advantages:
- No need to twist your neck in a weird way any more. This results in more stability so you can shoot at slower shutter speeds.
- No need to squint any more. Both eyes are open, where the left one is focused through the viewfinder.
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:56 am
I use my right eye and before this question it’d never occurred to me to use my left! (twit) I will try it now though – I have great difficulty in geting horizons (and other levels) level, despite lots of lining up and attention. Maybe my right eye just isn’t up to the task and my left will come to the rescue…
(yeah, right, but we live in hope…)
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:45 am
I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if the percentages were roughly the same for a similar question “Which eye do you use when observing through a telescope eyepiece?”
I use my right eye for both the telescope and camera viewfinder… have tried to use my left eye, but just can’t seem to get my head lined up with the eyepiece/viewfinder…
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:57 am
My right eye. However, if there’s a tricky or tight place I have no problems to use my left eye.
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:21 am
Surely the third option should be either, not both? I’ve tried looking with both but my nose gets in the way!
September 22nd, 2009 at 5:08 am
In general (and obviously, there are numerous exceptions), I believe right-handed folks are usually left-eyed and vice versa. This is from my dad’s approx 40 years of coaching baseball and having guys adjust their stances based on dominant eyes. Interestingly, my brother and I are both right-eye dominant at a distance and switch to left-eyed close up. Even though my camera may be focused out at a distance, for me to see it clearly is a near-focus, so I use my left eye most of the time. The exception is when I want to catch movement from the left, and I keep both eyes open, follow movement into the frame with the left eye and use the right eye to shoot. I usually pre-focused using the left eye in these situations.
September 22nd, 2009 at 5:34 am
I chose right as that’s what I use when in landscape mode. Although when I take pictures in portrait mode I usually use my left eye. With a 50mm (even on a 1.6 crop sensor) I can keep my right eye open and everything matches up.
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:21 am
Right eye. Left eye. Why does it matter? I’m baffled why this is even on your otherwise interesting web site.
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:54 am
I use my left eye which is my dominent eye – and I do get migranes! I’m also left handed…
It’s interesting to see the different reasons for which eye everyone uses, and also interesting seeing how that relates to their dominent hand!
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:11 am
Interesting poll. I use my left eye, which has always been my dominant eye. I am right-handed.
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:11 am
What? No option for cyclopes?…(just kidding). I use my right eye.
Very interesting question and results.
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:53 am
I mostly use the right eye, but when shooting sports or other action, I’ll use the left and keep the right open to follow action with a wider field of view. It’s really weird when using a long focal length!
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:20 am
I am left eye dominant, though my left eye requires more correction than the right. I shoot left-eyed.
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:23 am
I’m left-eyed and left-handed… I guess I’m the minority in both respects. :-P
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:31 am
also, I write right-handed, but I am fairly ambidextrous.
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:53 am
I’m also one of the cross dominant people. My dad actually realized when I was little in baseball that I needed to hit left handed to connect with the ball, but it was years later before I found out that it was because despite being right handed, my left eye is the dominant eye. I actually read somewhere that there are a lot of baseball players who are cross dominant, despite it being a small minority of people. Wonder if there’s anything similar in photographers after reading so many on here.
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:17 am
I use my left, and I have no idea why. That’s just how it went when I started picking up cameras with viewfinders. I can’t even do it with my right.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I am left eyed dominate. I’m also left handed, kick with the left foot, throw a ball – shoot a gun or bow all with the left hand because I’m left eyed dominate. I eat with my right hand so I can use the knife with my left hand. I use a sissors with my right hand so that I can hold the paper with my left hand. I golf and bat right handed so that I can see the ball with my left eye…And to the comment made earlier about left eyed domiate people getting migrains – never had one in my 58 years. Needless to say, I look through my viewfinder with my left eye.
All this is very natural to me but Im sure it is very bizzar to the right handed people out there!!
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Joe McNally has an interesting video on You Tube for Holding a camera for people who use there left eye. Give it a look as if you follow his advice you certainly will hold your camera much steadier.
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I have always used my left eye with my cameras since my first one! I think it is because my right eye is my weak one. I never really thought about it till someone asked me why I use my left eye!
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
It might be interesting to find out which is the dominant hand of the people taking this poll as well.
September 22nd, 2009 at 3:38 pm
I have to use my left eye. I only have 30% vision i think it is in my right. They tell me i was supposed to have glasses when i was 3 but only got them about 6 years ago haha. Only for close up work though.
I really need to get around to takin some insurance out on my left eye cause if I have an accident i won’t be able to work in IT no more let alone use a camera :(
Mike
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Lefty here,
I do archery and shoot left eyed so it only felt natural =)
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:02 pm
I tried using my right eye after reading the SLR manual although I’d always used the left before because it seemed more natural somehow.
Later I learned that we have one dominant eye and after doing a test to check which was mine, I found that my left eye is the dominant eye despite being right handed. Since then I have used the left eye and never looked back :-)
It pays to go with what feels natural to you.
Pat
Inner Beauty Photography
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:23 pm
My answer was right eye – as I am right handed – I do everything with the right side … first step is taken with my right food, ect. That is my theory! Enjoy your posts!
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:48 pm
I use the left eye since I have a case of lazy eye, the left eye is more clearer than the right…
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:04 pm
I read somewhere recently that ‘eyed-ness’ is as usually as strong in a person as handed-ness or footed-ness. That surprised me, as I’d never given it a thought.
I very strongly favour both my right foot and right hand, but shoot wih my left eye…… I’d be interested in hearing if that’s in any way unusual.
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:03 pm
I think as a general rule, it’s supposed to correspond with your handedness. It’s not a perfect rule – hence “general rule”. This stems from a test you can do with kids to see what handedness they will have. Give them a sheet of paper with a hole in it and ask them to look through. The eye they use is supposed to be a pretty good idea of which handedness they are.
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:14 pm
My photo blog is actually named after which eye I use in photography, “A Left-Eyed View.” :-)
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:17 pm
funny question, ive actually thought about it quite a bit…im right handed but left -eye dominant which is odd in that it is also my weaker eye…just seems natural though, go figure.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:16 am
I am right handed but left eye dominant. You can test this yourself. Point with your right index finger to an object with both eyes open. Close your right eye you should be right on target. Now try closing the left eye and you will be off the mark. If your off the mark You are left eye dominant.
If you’re left handed, reverse the process, using your left hand and left index finger.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:05 am
Left eye; left handed.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:21 am
I’ve pondered about this subject before, so let me put a different theory in there…
If you take a photo with your left eye, then are you using your right brain and visa vera, correct?
Does that mean you take more creative shorts with your left eye, and more logical one’s with your right eye…
Are you artistic or logic – Maybe both
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:50 am
Left eye as it’s my stronger eye, I wear contact lenses and when I have looked with the right eye I just can’t decide if the image is in focus or not, well composed etc… everything goes out the window. I am right handed though.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
I never thought about shooting with my left eye before I read this post :D I felt uncomfortable when I close my right eye, but maybe I’ll try shooting with my left eye for a new shooting experience!
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I used to use only my right eye until I had Lasik surgery, since then I’ve used both just to change perspective a degree or two.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I dont know about you? but for photography the proper way sould be left eye! I have yet to see Video Camera for left eye its always right eye like it or not, Left or right handed ect, when I was In the militery you were trained to take aim of your rifle with your left eye, it did not mater if your left eye was the weaker eye, It will take time to get use to it but in the end you get used to it,
September 24th, 2009 at 3:38 am
I’m right-handed, left eye dominant, and shoot with my right eye. Somehow I got used to it and it’s a hard habit to break.
Also: if I try using my left eye to shoot, there’s just not enough nose room :P
September 24th, 2009 at 4:51 am
Never thought about this before . I didn’t manage to remember which eye I use , but I had a picture made in the mirror , that’s how I checked to see and discovered I use my left eye .
I also have a memory with my left eye…at a rally a rock hit my camera making my eye and the surrondin area to get bigger …
(sorry for the bad english)
September 24th, 2009 at 4:57 am
i mostly use right. i hate to use glasses, and my left eye has poorer eyesight than my right. and i think i’m right-eye dominance.
September 24th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
I’m right-handed and I use the left eye. I used to view with my right eye, but a strong infection left some blur in my vision, so … I had to make the change
September 25th, 2009 at 1:32 am
I always used my right eye and i’m left handed… but now I wear glasses and my right eye has the worst eyesight, so I don’t use the viewfinder near as much as i used to!
September 25th, 2009 at 1:33 am
I didn’t even have to think about this question—right eye. In fact, after some particularly exhausting photography events, I would have a tender spot and occasionally a bruise on the bottom edge of the orbital bone. It took me years to learn how to relax. and not have a death grip on the camera.
Re: Kenriquez comments about using the left eye. When I took a gun handling course, we were taught how to determine which eye was the best eye for aiming with. That’s wasn’t necessarily the eye with the “best vision” but the eye that was more true, more centered which helped correct for the parallax displacement. I’ve described this badly, but I hope it makes sense.
September 25th, 2009 at 2:18 am
I agree with Trevor about using both eyes; one in the viewfinder and the other observing activity outside the scope of the viewfinder. It allows you to see where the action is which prepares you for getting better shots (imo).
While I do switch back and forth from time to time, I primarily shoot with the right eye looking through the viewfinder.
September 25th, 2009 at 2:31 am
Interesting how many people use their right eye…..When I first started getting serious about photography and bought an slr I used my right eye. The problem with my right eye is that I had to close my left eye so as not to confuse the two different images that my brain was processing. I can’t close one eye without closing it really tight wich leads to blurred vision for a few seconds upon opening that eye. Very annoying….
then i tried my left eye…………….problem solved…………….when I use my left eye my right eye is behing the camera body so it has no view of the ’same’ scene that my left eye has through the view finder, and the result is that I don’t have to close my right eye….I can leave both eyes open…….no annoying blurred vision after taking a shot.
September 25th, 2009 at 2:40 am
As a scientist, we were always taught to look through a microscope with both eyes open, one looking through the monocle, the other staring into the distance. It takes some practice, but is supposed to protect against eyestrain and improve DOP.
I’ve always wondered if the same should be done with photography – look through one eye but keep the other open and staring into the distance?
It can be done with a microscope and works surprisingly well, once you learn. So, it should be doable with a camera, yes?
September 25th, 2009 at 2:41 am
With respect to which eye a person looks through the viewfinder with:
Answer: It is their dominant eye.
To determine which eye is dominant put bothhands together and for a small square using the thumb and palms of both hands. Hole both hands in front of you and focus on an object through the hole formed with your hands. Slowly bring the hands toward your face so that you are looking at the object with one eye. The eye you are looking with is the dominant eye.
September 25th, 2009 at 2:55 am
Interesting question…I too had to get out my camera to check…what I discovered is that holding it horizontal (landscape) I use my right eye (& close my left); but vertical (portrait) I use my left (but keep my right eye open – which seems odd since all my right eye sees then is the screen…) I am right handed (don’t know if that makes a difference or not?) My right eye is far sighted & my left eye is near sighted (something I better keep in mind when I start shooting more MF)
Definitely something to think about…
September 25th, 2009 at 3:17 am
from the time i was a little whipper-snapper, i used my left hand and eye to aim and fire my trusty cap pistol this habit has carried over to adulthood and i still aim my rifle, bow and camera with the left eye as well. could have something to do with me being left-handed.
the part about getting migraines because of being left-handed makes about as much sense as getting hemmoroids because you’re a blonde. migraines are caused for other reasons, dehydration and toxins in the body are a couple good reasons. poorly or uncorrected poor vision could be another reason. if you are getting headaches or migraines and your vision is fine, it’s time to clean your body out and start drinking good, clean, non-chlorinated, non-floridated chemical free water and eating organic food. it does a body good. and who knows, maybe you’ll have more energy to go out and shoot more.
Gary
September 25th, 2009 at 4:19 am
I use my left eye as my right eye is my lazy eye and everythings all blurry lol
September 25th, 2009 at 4:58 am
I use my LEFT eye only because my right eye is so weak that eveything’s one big blur . I’m just thankful I have the one GOOD EYE LEFT or else I couldn’t do photography or see my kidds and my hubby and all that I love or the world around me, that would be tragic.
September 25th, 2009 at 5:46 am
Old hockey injury left me blind in the right so I am stuck with the left. My family used to think it was funny to throw small objects at me since it took me a long time to get my depth perception back (it is still not so good).
September 25th, 2009 at 7:53 am
As I understand this, it has to do with your dominant side. Right-handed or left handedness. I’m right-handed and use my right eye. My lefty husband uses his left eye. Our daughter a chemistry professor and artist (there’s a combination) uses her left eye for cameras and telescopes, but writes with her right hand. We’ve always called her mixed dominant. I have no documentation for any of this.
September 25th, 2009 at 9:44 am
I would be interested in a follow up survey: what eye do you use? are you right-handed or left-handed? I wonder if their is a correlation?
September 25th, 2009 at 9:48 am
I’m left-eye dominant, but my nose gets in the way of the buttons. Shooting vertical format obviates this problem; plus I find vertical format more pleasing, so it all works out for me to use the better, left eye.
September 25th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I was right-eyed guy for years but lately I’ve noticed that my left eye is much sharper when looking thru the viewfinder, so I’m working on making the switch.
September 25th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
What’s a Viewfinder?? Just kidding, as most camera manufacturers made a serious mistake by eliminating this important part of any camera. Since I recently had cataract surgery, I feel like I have new eyes and I find myself using both eyes to look through the viewfinder just because I can.
September 25th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
How do you use both eyes at the same time to look through the view finder… :-) j/k
I mostly use left eye, but would switch to right eye for awkward angled shots. Otherwise using left eye seem to be most natural for the camera grip I have. I’m right handed though, and use my right eye to look through the iron-sights whenever I do “that type” of shooting. :-)
September 25th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I use both eyes when I photograph: my left looks through the viewfinder and my right stays open to catch everything going on around me. I don’t know how people can take photos with one eye closed…you never know what you’ll miss in the blink of a shutter.
September 25th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Definitely my right eye because i am left handed.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7355514@N08/
September 25th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Both eyes OPEN! One of my photgraphy teachers does this, it’s hard to get used to but I’ve never looked back. Left in the viewfinder but right eye open, try it for yourself!
September 25th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
I try to use my left eye so that I keep my nose off the screen!!! Having said that, I tend to use my right and keep my left eye open to view the shot as well.
September 25th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
I am right handed but ball and bat sports I am left handed, my left eye is the eye i use to look through the view finder.
September 26th, 2009 at 1:58 am
I use my only my right eye and i think it’s like being right handed or left handed. Also, i feel keeping the other eye open distracts from the real subject that is within the frame.
September 26th, 2009 at 2:32 am
I use my mind’s eye.
September 26th, 2009 at 4:10 am
I first became aware of being left eye when I was in the service and on the gunnery range. I was shooting right handed but used my left eye to aim. The gunnery officer thought I was weird. I write left handed but otherwise use my right hand.
Here is a challenge: pick up you camera with your left hand and try to use it with just that hand. Now think of the millions of people who do not have or have lost the use of their right hand. It would be nice if at least one camera company would address this issue.
September 26th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Before the cameras were viewing throught the lens, the location of the view finder would determine which eye you used. Most of the viewfinds were to one side usually the left eye. If you used the right eye the picture would all be to one side . A problem to alot of people
Jim Rahilly
September 26th, 2009 at 5:12 am
I favor my right eye when looking through the view finder, I admit, but I do on occasion use my left eye when the camera is mounted on a tripod.
September 26th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Someone please explain how you can use both eyes when looking through a viewfinder.
September 26th, 2009 at 7:28 am
I’m left eye dominant so I shot with my left eye…but am primarily right-handed. It’s one of the consideration I had to take into account for when choosing my camera. The Nikon D70s has a wide body that makes it very comfortable for me to use my left eye.
September 26th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
I always use my right eye on my DSLR, but half the time I’m using my Canon PowerShot SD790IS which doesn’t even have a viewfinder. But I look at the LCD screen with my right eye. :)
I guess it’s because I’m right-handed… but 37% of your voters use the left eye! Maybe they have better vision in that eye?
September 26th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Interesting one,as I also wondered which eye, people use, I can only use my left one, as for some strange reason I cannot close it on its own, like winking or closing only the right eye hence the use of the left…the cheek always ends up on the LCD screen because the viewfinder is more to the left….lol.
September 27th, 2009 at 2:05 am
Is there is a correlation of left eye to dominant right brain? The right brain is associated with images … Next poll to be “Do right brain dominant photographers take better pictures?”
September 27th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
My left eye is the dominant eye….so that’s the one for looking in the view finder. Depending on the design of the camera, it does tend to make a lot of nose prints on the lcd screen!
September 27th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Steve Hollasch, (comment seen above), has it correct! When I use my left eye for the viewfinder, my right eye gets blocked but there are times I do use my left.
Keeping both eyes open is very important if the photographer wishes to be aware of his/her surrondings while shooting.
September 28th, 2009 at 12:36 am
I am left handed and use my left eye, which I have always thought strange as this eye has much weaker sight than the right and has done since birth but I cannot use my right eye instead.
September 28th, 2009 at 10:18 am
I use my left eye.
I am left handed.
Very interesting poll question. Made me pick up my camera and check which eye I use for sure!
September 28th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
When I take verticals I have to take them with my right because the grip is on the right so If I want to stabalize my body I filp to the right, but I like to take pictures with my body upside down, I think when I do that all the holding rules change, it’s free for all
September 28th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Something to add:
I shoot a gun with my right eye, I shoot a camera with my right eye!
September 28th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
I’m right-handed for everything else it seems except for looking through the viewfinder, in which I use my left eye. For some odd reason it just feels more natural to do so.
In addition, it pays off in the fact that I can look in the viewfinder with my left eye and cradle the camera (or hold it steady against my left shoulder) with my right hand. It’s feels a bit more coordinated that way. I think that whatever works use it.
September 29th, 2009 at 10:55 am
I guess I’m left-eye dominant or my vision’s better in my left eye because that one feels (sees) better. (I’m also right-handed and I do get migraines.) It also seems easier to stabilize the camera that way. Glad to know there’s a decent percentage of lefties out there, and I’m not shooting “wrong.” lol
September 30th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I’m impressed with those who can put their right eye to the viewfinder and keep their left eye open. I can’t process both images at once. I viewfind with my left eye and leave my right eye open but blocked by the camera, so I don’t have to blink away the effect of one closed eye after I open it.
September 30th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
I am left-eye dominant, but VERY right everything else (handed, footed.. etc.). I do got a lot of migraines too. Oddly, even though I’m left eyed, I turn the camera’s top toward my right side when turning for vertical photos, which means I can open my right eye if I need to when shooting.
September 30th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
NO SURPRISE since for as long as I can remember cameras have been designed and advertised to be used with the right eye (both portrait and landscape) and digital has not changed this.
Looking on a screen we do with both eyes, though I only use one contact lens (-2) for easy ‘focus’ on screen with one and through viewfinder with the other ;-)
September 30th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
I’m left-handed & right footed but always use my left eye when shooting, it just feels wrong to use my right eye.
September 30th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Interesting, but doesn’t the fact that the most cameras are right-hand design bias the user to using the right eye, so as not to get face and hand caught up together
September 30th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
One of the advantages of large format cameras, and some medium format ones, you can have both your eyes open.
September 30th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
@Rich re:cataract surgery
I’ve got an appointment with a cataract surgeon in a week. What type of cataract lens did you get? I want to be sure I can still take photos.
September 30th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Right eye dominant, keeping left eye open as in the many reasons above. I also do use my left eye occasionally. Not often though.. lol
September 30th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
I am a “right eye shooter”, however I have a bit of an interesting situation. As a child I had “lazy eye”, but before they caught it, and fixed it, I only used one eye, my right eye. Now as an adult, I still use only one eye at a time but I can choose which eye to use.
What I mean by this is that I never use both eyes at the same time. The downside is that I have poor depth perception, but I have learned how to compensate for this. On the good side, (at least I think so..) I view everything around me as a photograph! And yes, I constantly have things “scream” photograph! at me.
So yes, I am right eye dominant in everything I see.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
I originally shot with my right eye, but eventually realized I was having trouble focusing.
I then would close one eye and look and then close the other and look and realized I had a problem.
At the time, I did not wear glasses and had not had a eye checkup.
When I did go to the eye DR, I found I had glaucoma in both eyes and I had permanent optic nerve damage in the right eye causing a blurry image, but not in the left eye.
I now wear glasses for reading and I had to switch to my left eye for photography, which was a fairly easy adaptation.
The problem arises when I try to shoot a gun, as I am right handed, but have to aim with my left eye.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
I want to notified of followup comments and forgot to check that box.
October 1st, 2009 at 1:27 am
I use my left eye and keep my right eye open while shooting, but I am right handed and left footed. But I shoot a gun with my right eye because I am right handed. Hmm…great question.
October 1st, 2009 at 2:08 am
The right side of the brain is documented to be the ‘creative’ side. The left side of the body is connencted to the right side of the brain. Are “left eye dominant” photographers more creative?
October 1st, 2009 at 3:21 am
I have had a camera for many years now and I use my right eye simply because this it seems cameras are designed.that way….It simply is easier….never gave it much thought til now… I just tried to use my canon with the left eye and it was not as easy to hold and use the various features….
October 1st, 2009 at 9:19 am
Hi! I just thought I would tell you that dominance in your right eye means that you are using your left brain while taking a photograph, while dominance in your left eye means your right brain is in action during the shot. I am not an authority, but I have been tested for dominance in right/left brain so know that the right brain is the brain of words and calculations, while the left brain is wordless, intuitive and immediate. I can see how my images are in effect exactly descriptive of this. I can’t or won’t set u a shot, prefer to just walk around and be there in the moment, and also not be intrusive, that is, no one would really notice me taking a photo at a farmer’s market or at an event. I rely on my peripheral vision a lot and prefer to try and catch the mood. For example, I was in Hong Kong at the front of a tram, taking photos of all the trams passing. If I had been a left brain kinda person I might have thought about the exposure speed, maybe getting some blurring of passing trams, etc, but I did not, so instead, I focused on getting the full impact of trams passing beside me or coming towards me. Nice photos that put you right there. Photographers appreciated that it was no mean trick to capture that feeling. No one else noticed. Can you guess which eye is my dominant eye?
October 1st, 2009 at 10:00 am
I am right and left handed, but left eye dominant. My right eye is weaker and like someone above, not one thing is focused correctly when I “experiment” and use my right eye to shoot. Wish that someone would make a “lefty” camera. With the viewfinder and shutter button switched.
October 1st, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I shoot left eye. I like to believe it gives me more creative intuition because it is connected to the right brain.
October 1st, 2009 at 5:32 pm
I use my left eye…and when I was in the Army, I shot with my left eye, too. I’m right handed, that really threw everyone for a loop!
October 1st, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Since I can remember I always used my left eye to shoot. just in cases with awkward angles, I use my right eye.
And I’m right handed :P
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:04 am
This is a very interesting question which I had never though about before and I had to pick up my camera to find out which eye I use. Its the left, but having read some of the comments about people changing eyes I am now going to use my right eye as my sight in that eye is very good whereas my left has become very long sighted.
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:34 am
I only shoot using my left eye and always have. I am short-sighted and my left eye is the weaker of my two eyes, but try as I might, it just feels absolutely wrong using the right eye. For the records, I am right handed.
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:46 am
I have always used my left eye when shooting.. it’s an interesting question too. I am right handed, do almost everything as a righty – I also keep both eyes open during shooting. most of my right eye vision is blocked by the camera.. maybe it’s so that I have one less thing to think about — close one eye.. who knows..
October 2nd, 2009 at 4:27 am
The percentages equal 101%???
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:32 am
I use my left eye and the answer to this question determines which way you twist the camera to get a portrait composition. My wife and I are opposites in this regard which makes it interesting when I rotate the shots in Picasa.
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:16 am
TERRI, I got the lenses that allow me to see far away. That’s the only ones the insurance company would pay for. I now use the magnifier 1.75 glasses only for reading. I see through the viewfinder fine. If you have a spare $4000 then get the lenses that let you see far and close.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:19 am
That’s funny. I wrote (far above) that I use my right eye, but then read someone else’s post about how he “had to pick up his camera” to recall which eye he looked through. So I tried that. No, I actually use my LEFT eye. Very interesting poll – thanks! :-)
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:53 am
I use both eyes.
Its a habit I developed when using a microscope. It enables me to look down the microscope and, at the same time, make adjustments to controls and find stuff on my desk. Also helps to keep an eye on the boss or the good looking assistant across the lab.
Still works for the camera. Now I keep an eye on what else is happening around me. The camera should not block the view but allow you to select the bit you want. You can’t do that effectively with one eye shut.
It does take a bit of getting used to but give it a try. Maybe we can change those statistics.
Cheers
Tom
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
RICH – Thanks for the info. My insurance will cover mono lenses, but they can be made for either far or near and I was afraid if I went for far, my fledgling photography career would end before it really began. If I had a spare $4000 I can think of others things to do with it (camera lenses instead of cataract lenses ;) ). I think the adjustable lenses are too new for me to try. Your satisfaction with your new sight is very helpful to me.
My apologies to the rest of this thread commentators/readers. This is the first time I’ve found anyone who is a photographer and a former cataract patient. Google searches didn’t help and I wanted to find out what I could when there was an opportunity. Again, please forgive my OT comments.
October 2nd, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Hi Terri I am 70 and have had a camera since 1955 when I had good eyes then I needed Glasses then Bi-focals then almost went blind from cataracs and had two new lenses put in my eyes…over all that time I was always able to find a way to take photographs…If you would like to converse my e-mail POLUTO@COMCAST.NET
October 8th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
I use both right and left eyes. I look through the viewfinder with the lift and then the right to make sure I get everything I want in the picture. So, I might trake a picture while useing the right eye and then the next picture I might use the left. Depends on what I think is the best picture at the time.
October 16th, 2009 at 7:20 am
I use my left eye and I’m left handed. Also right brained (creative). My right eye automatically closes as I raise the camera towards my eyes to shoot. I tried the right eye as a result of reading this post, but it feels really uncomfortable. It’s as if the left side of my body serves as a tripod, My right eye is stronger but the left eye is more comfortable. I’m sure I could do both if I wanted to make the effort. Might try it just for an experiment. Great post. Never thought about it before now.
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